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G. A. SCOTT. MAGNETIC BODY WEAR. No. 410,652. Patented Sept. 10, 1889.

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No. 410,652. Patented Sept. 10, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE AUGUSTUS SCOTT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MAGN ETIC BODY-WEAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,652, datedSeptember 10, 1889.

Application filed May 15, 1889- Serial No. 310,796. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE AUGUSTUS SCOTT, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at New York city, county of New York, State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Magnetic Body-Wear,which is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a front view of a portion of a corset,showing the exposed metal ribs as applied by me; Fig. 2, an inside Viewof the same; Fig. 3, a back view of such corset in use. Fig. 4 is anenlarged view of a piece of the corset, showing an open band-socket witha metal band in view.

The purpose of this invention, the result of long continued experimentsand physiological study, is to conveniently apply to the human formmagnetic and electric curative appliances, the efficacy of which is nowconceded in chest, cardiac, and cerebral aifections, especially manifestin persons of nervous-bilious temperment and sedentary habits.

The invention lies in such mechanical adaptations of well-known remedialagents to an ordinary vestment that the degree of potency may be readilyregulated and concentrated on that part of the body which the difficultyto be alleviated indicates, or to the whole thereof, or in varied andrelative efficiency at different parts, and more positively, by reasonof closer contact, than has heretofore been attempted, and that, too,without losing sight of the beneficial qualities claimed fromventilation and support to relaxed muscles specified by earlierspecialists in health-sustainin g contrivances.

For convenience, the drawings indicate my construction as applied to thefigure of a Woman by means of a corset, to be worn over what is known tothe trade as a knit Jersey; but my system is equally applicable to suchgarment itself, or, for that matter, to any article of underwear, thenearer the skin the better.

I employ metallic bands A B O, of copper, zinc, and highly-magnetizedsteel, separately or conjointly, incased in correspondingly-proportioned sockets open on one or both sides but, as will be presentlyexplained, the main object is to get as much metal as possible intoclose proximity to the body, that its natural action may more positivelyinfluence the currents.

The bands of different metals (see Fig. 3) are brought into contact tosecure voltaic action by spurs D D, hidden within the inclosing-sockets,extending across the intervening lines of stitches, which separate eachband from its neighbor.

To illustrate the range of this novel construction, in a case ofvisceraltorpidity or stomachic irritation magnetized steels may be placed aboveor, below the medial line, or they may extend the entire length of thevesture, as shown in Fig. 1; or three bands, of copper, zinc and copper,may be placed in juxtaposition, as shown in Fig. 3, when by reason ofthe open spaces exhibiting the metal sheets natural perspiration,eliminating the salts of the body, will produce a mild and efiicaciousgalvanic current by the decomposition of the metals.

For cerebral weakness, the highly-magnetized steels O O insure aconstant magnetic current, and it is obvious that the bands may belocated at will, as the end sought suggests, so as to get a compoundeifect and a flow of electricity from organ to organ, as they aresympathetically afiected by disease from their dependency on each otherin the fulfillment of separate or joint fuctions in the animal economy.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-- 1. The combination of a chest-vesture adapted to human environment,provided with open when applied to a human body, substantiallyband-sockets, andaseries of magnetized metal as and for the purposesexplained. bands inserted therein, substantially as and for the purposeexplained. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SCOTT. 5 2. The combination of achest-vesture provided with open band-sockets and a series of Witnesses:different metal bands inserted therein, so S. J. GORDON, placedrelatively as to induce galvanic action JOHN W. RIPLEY.

